Disclaimer: I going to get tired of doing this. I don't own PJO or the Apple iPod Touch.

Hello! I've had quite a busy week...so this story might be a little junky but I hope you still enjoy it. As requested by many readers through my poll, this story is about the iPod Touch!

Nico POV (you probably know that already though...)

"Hey, Dad!" I greeted, bobbing up and down. Today was a very special day!

"Hello, son," Hades said casually. "What do you want?"

"Don't listen to him," Persephone nagged. "He probably just wants you to give him more allowance."

I frowned. "I don't have an allowance. What's that?"

She just shook her head. "Never mind." Then she left the throne room.

"Dad do you know what day it is?" I asked.

"Um, it's Tuesday, right?" He looked for reassurance from one of his skeleton soldiers. The soldier nodded. It was hard to tell in the Underworld.

"Yes, and?" I said.

"Persephone's making meatloaf tonight?" Dad guessed.

I shook my head and sighed. Of course he didn't remember. Actually, I didn't even remember this important date for a time.

"Never mind," I told him and walked out into the courtyard.

As I was walking through Persephone's garden, kicking at every petunia I passed, someone behind me tapped me on the shoulder.

I turned around, startled. It one of the skeleton guards.

"Oh, hi Sam," I said sullenly. "What's up?"

Sam was always nice to me. Apparently his young son died while he was fighting in the army. He acted like a father to me, sometimes better than Hades himself.

"The dark Underworld sky," Sam replied curtly. Dead guys from the 1700s didn't exactly get the humor of the twenty-first century. "I have something for you." He pulled out a little black bag. "Happy birthday, Nico."

I smiled. Someone actually remembered my birthday! "Thanks, Captain Samuel." I said with a salute.

"It is no problem," Sam said. "I figured your father would not have remembered. He is a busy man. You must not hold a grudge against him."

I nodded. Then I shook the bag. "What is it?"

"Oh. I'm sure you'll like it," Sam grinned. "Saw some kids in Elysium playing with one of these. They said I could give one to you. It seems that you're pretty popular there."

It was true. After the news spread about the Camp Half-Blood defeating Kronos and his army, I had gotten more respect from these dead people. No longer was I the weird, gloomy son of Hades.

"Thanks," I said again.

After he left, I went back into the palace and into my room. My bedroom was nothing fancy. Just a place to stay if I was getting homesick. I guess the Underworld was the best place to call "home".

I opened up the bag and spilled the contents on my bed. Out came a small white container with a black rectangle thing inside. What is it?

I picked it up and inspected it. Apple iPod Touch it said. I realized that this was one of those little electronic thingies that kids at my school used with weird plugs that went into their ears to make them look cooler. I never bothered to ask what those were. Just figured it was some type of picture frame or something.

No sooner after inspecting the Apple iPod Touch was it opened and thrown on my bed. I picked it up again, feeling the cold metallic metal in my hands. Now what was I supposed to do?

I figured the instructions might tell me, but I was not in the mood to try to read it. Dyslexia forbid my eyes to read the tiny words printed in the pamphlet. It was so annoying.

I pressed the button with the house symbol on it. Instantly the glass lit up, a white apple picture appearing in the center. Why an apple? I don't know. Then the picture changed. Multiple little square pictures popped up.

"What are these for?" I asked myself. But myself didn't know the answer.

I placed my finger on the little music note picture, not expecting anything happen. To my surprise, the picture changed, revealing a little sentence that I had no patience to read. Wow...all I had to do was touch the mirror and it would change. I am so powerful. Fear me, Apple iPod Touch, the supreme lord of the picture squares!

This thing was weird. It was like some magical picture box. But how do you get more pictures in it? How useless. Why would anyone want to play with these in heaven?

I turned my attention back to the container the Apple iPod Touch came in. It also came with a white string thing and those weird plugs people used. I picked them up and put them in my ears. Nothing happened. I didn't even feel cooler. Maybe I had to bob my head up and down too to get the effect. I tried it, but once again, nothing happened.

Then I realized that there was a little hole on the bottom of the black magic picture box. It was the perfect size for the little metal cylinder at the end of the plugs.

I shoved the end of the plugs into the black box, pressed a random picture square, once again feeling unrealistically powerful, waited a moment, and then screamed like a little girl.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH! I yelled, cursing in Ancient Greek as well. Loud music started pounding through my ears. I quickly pulled them out and threw the device across the room. The music stopped as it hit the wall with a loud Crack!

Tears filled my eyes. Never in my life had anything so loud been inside my ears. The pain, the agony. That stupid iPod Touch!

A skeleton guard rushed into my room. "Is something wrong, son of Lord Hades?" He asked with concern.

"My name is Nico!" I snapped. The guard backed up a bit, flinching.

I mumbled an apology and shooed him off. After he left, I went over to the area where I threw the black box and picked it up.

A long crack ran down the glass, disfiguring the little pictures. I pressed my finger against one of the picture squares, trying to resurrect the destroyed object. Nothing happened. It had stopped working. I didn't feel too powerful at the moment.

So much for the much anticipated birthday present. Maybe next time I'll read the instructions.

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